NHF_WC_2017_Tyrney_Lois
2017 April 12
Lois Tyrney discusses her childhood in rural Vermont during World War II, attending a two-room school and later boarding school in Massachusetts. She recounts her experience as an air watcher, where she monitored for enemy aircraft along the northern border of the United States and Canada. She also talks about her brother's service in the Marines during the war and the impact it had on her family. Lois discusses rationing, her father's lumber company's contribution to the war effort, and the gender discrimination she experienced within her family's business. She shares her transition to college at Syracuse University after the war and meeting her husband, a World War II veteran.
Digital
English
1h 4m 9s
Lois Tyrney, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Interview was recorded by Ginny and Janet Sorrentino for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (Washington College)
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States